One Woman, One Year, 200 Books
The Bookshop, The Gate of Angels & The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald Page: 472 We had friends over for dinner tonight so in addition to not getting my reading done, I’m also very tired. I don’t think I can get away with two unthoughtful blogposts in a row so…I’ll pretend I’m being thoughtful or [...]
The Bookshop, The Gate of Angels & The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald Page: 408 Not much of a day and so not much to post. I spent part of the morning and part of the evening writing. I’ve been working on my book proposal and while it was going along swimmingly at first, I [...]
Jack the Giant Killer by Richard Doyle Page: 95 Finished The Bookshop, The Gate of Angels & The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald Page: 221 Jack is a bit violent. Not exactly Grand Theft Auto…but seriously bloody. There is actually an illustration of a giant getting it in the head with a pickaxe! Not for [...]
Emma Page: 495 Finished A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh Page: 225 I find it interesting the way fiction can make you examine your own life. A Handful of Dust deals with a happy marriage that is unexpectedly destroyed through adultery and carelessness. The principal couple’s child also dies. Of course while reading it [...]
Emma by Jane Austen Page: 450 I’m happy to have read 230 pages today which is 13 more than my minimum requirement. I’m often asked how I manage to read so much and that inquiry has its kinder forms (I’m so impressed type) and its unkinder ones (I’m sure you’re just skimming type). I think [...]
Emma by Jane Austen Page: 220 I always enjoy Austen. Her incisive wit, clear prose and grounded morality are so enjoyable and instructive that I can’t help it. All six of her novels are beautiful and they are each so unique. I’m sad that once I finish Emma I’ll be done with Austen for the [...]
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes Page: 320 Finished The Woman Warrior, China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston Page: 541 Maxine Hong Kingston’s prose is amazing. Haunting, powerful, fanciful. And I love the photo of her on the cover of the Everyman’s edition. You might not be able to see it well, but she looks wild and [...]
I’m going to watch a movie with my husband instead of blogging tonight. Comment on THAT!
The Stranger by Albert Camus Page: 117 Finished The Woman Warrior, China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston Page:113 The Stranger was a quick and easy read. The bleakness and the heartlessness of the book may have been meant as an indictment of modern life but it seemed more to be a symptom than a diagnosis. [...]
A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul Page: 564 Finished The story ends kind of happy, kind of sad but better than I expected. Mr. Biswas wants a house, finally gets it five years before he dies and then almost loses it. But his daughter saves the day and his widow isn’t left homeless. [...]